Community

Lieutenant Governor H. Frank Lewis heartily exchanges New Year’s greetings with President Abd-El-Aziz while attending the Levee. His Honour is sporting the UPEI Alumni scarf that was seen throughout the Island on January 1.

UPEI hosts large numbers at New Year’s Day Levee

The University of Prince Edward Island continued its tradition of hosting the community to a New Year's Day Levee at Don and Marion McDougall Hall.

UPEI Alumni Association President Alicia Bremner, Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors Tracey Cutcliffe, President and Vice-Chancellor Alaa Abd-El-Aziz and Valerie Abd-El-Aziz greeted upwards of 400 guests between 11:30 am and 1 pm.

Administration

The Robertson Library and Office of Skills Development and Learning to merge

Over the last 30 years, libraries have been transformed by the changes in information and learning, many of them wrought by developments in digital technologies.

The Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island has been an innovator in the development of new approaches to serving a diverse community of learners and scholars, and has demonstrated a creative approach to developing new services.

Athletics

Panthers partner with Islanders & Kowboy Mike Hughes for Hockey Day

The UPEI Men's Hockey Panthers are teaming up once again with the Charlottetown Islanders for the second annual Hockey Day on PEI, Saturday, January 9. The goal of the day is to raise money for minor hockey teams across the Island.

Everyone is invited to cheer on the Panthers at the Eastlink Centre as the UPEI Men's Hockey team hosts the Dalhousie Tigers at 7:00 pm.

University of Prince Edward Island Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tim Kendrick is pleased to announce the Panthers have added an early Christmas present in the form of 6'8”, 240-pound Bluefield High School graduate Jon Hovingh.

Hovingh spent two years with the Holland College Hurricanes, where he received his diploma in Sports and Leisure Management while being named a CCAA Academic All-Canadian, and recently completed his training at the Atlantic Police Academy in Summerside.

Music

The UPEI Department of Music Recital Series is thrilled to present soprano Tracy Cantin on Friday, January 8 at 7:30 pm at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall.

The Summerside native is returning to UPEI, where she says “my serious training all began ten years ago.” Cantin will be accompanied by pianist Frances McBurnie and jazz guitarist Dave Miller. Her program of will include Bach’s Ave Maria and works by Debussy, Richard Strauss, Puccini, and Britain. This recital has become a passion project for Tracy as it includes her favourite pieces composed by her favourite composers. Two of the Strauss pieces are songs she first learned and performed while a student at UPEI.

Cantin holds degrees from McGill University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Alberta. Among Tracy’s numerous awards are a 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, a 2013 Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation career development grant, and first place in Canada’s prestigious Lois Marshall Memorial Competition (2010).

Tickets are $15 Adults & $10 Seniors/Students and are available online or by calling or e-mailing the music office at (902) 566-0507 or music@upei.ca.

Students

UPEI is proud of its 81 CIS Academic All-Canadians who are featured on this poster.

Eighty-one UPEI student-athletes achieve Academic All Canadian status

UPEI student-athletes have set a university record, not on the field or the court, but in the classroom. For the third year in a row, the number of UPEI Panthers who have achieved Academic All Canadian status has increased to 81.

Atlantic Veterinary College

Dr. Ian Dohoo is congratulated by Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz (left), president and vice-chancellor of UPEI, and Dr. Greg Keefe (right), dean of AVC, upon the unveiling of his portrait at a recent celebration at AVC.

Dr. Ian Dohoo honoured for contributions to epidemiology

Dr. Ian Dohoo, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at UPEI, has been recognized by his peers for his contributions to the field of epidemiology through the commissioning of a portrait.

Unveiled at a recent celebration at AVC, the portrait depicts Dohoo relaxing at his home on Prince Edward Island. Painted by Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka, of Guelph, Ontario, it will hang in the AVC Department of Health Management, Dohoo’s academic department.

Research

As Canada made plans in the early 1960s to build The Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, it sought the input of one of the world’s foremost thinkers in the area of architectural acoustics to help design the main performance stage. Dr. Leo Beranek, a founder of the internationally known Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN), took on the job, creating, with his team, a multi-purpose main stage capable, even a half a century later, of thrilling audiences with versatile acoustic experience. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, a journal edited by UPEI’s Dr. Annabel Cohen, pays tribute to Dr. Beranek in his 100th year in a special edition with the aim of bringing together the fields of architectural acoustics and musical psychology.